1776 RELEASES AND RECEIPTS. [ART. 79

Bowers v. State, 7 H. & J. 32. Fridge v. State, 3 G. & J 103. Mitchell v.
Mitchell, 1 Gill, 66. Magruder v. Darnall, 6 Gill, 269. Crapater v. Griffith,
2 Bl. 1. Corrie's Case, 2 Bl. 488. McClellan v. Kennedy, 3 Md. Ch 234.
McKim v. Handy, 4 Md. Ch. 228. McClellan v. Kennedy, 8 Md. 230. Han-
son v. Worthington, 12 Md. 420. Fouke v. Fleming, 13 Md. 410. Green-
wood v. Greenwood, 28 Md. 370

1888, art. 79, sec. 2. 1860, art. 79, sec. 2. 1809, ch. 168, sec 1
1831, ch. 305, sec. 1.

2. The releases and receipts mentioned in the preceding sec-
tion may be acknowledged in this State before a justice of the
peace; and if acknowledged before a justice of the peace of
any other county or city than that in which it is to be recorded,
there shall be a certificate of the clerk of the circuit court for
the county, or of the superior court of Baltimore city, under
the seal of the court, that the person before whom the acknowl-
edgment was taken was at the time of the acknowledgment a
justice of the peace; or before the mayor of a municipal cor-
poration; and if so, the fact of his being mayor shall be certi-
fied under the seal of the corporation; or before a notary; and
if so, the fact of his being a notary shall be certified under his
notarial seal; or before a judge of the orphans' court; and if
before a judge of the orphans' court of any other county than
that in which it is to be recorded, there shall be a certificate of
the register of wills of his county, under the seal of his office,
that at the time of the acknowledgment he was a judge of the
orphans' court; or before a judge of the circuit court; and if
before a judge of any other judicial circuit than that in which
the county in which it is to be recorded is situated, there shall
be a certificate from the clerk of the circuit court for the
county in which it is acknowledged that he was a judge of the
circuit court for that county at the time of the acknowledg-
ment; or before a register of wills; and if before a register of
wills of any other county than that in which it is to be recorded,
there shall be a certificate of the chief judge of the orphans'
court of the county in which he is register that he was register
at the time of such acknowledgment; but if the acknowledg-
ment is made before a justice of the peace, judge of the
orphans' court or register of wills of the county in which the
release or receipt is to be recorded, or before a judge of the
judicial circuit in which said county is situated, no such certi-
ficate shall be necessary.
Carroll v. Tyler, 2 H. & G. 54